Test Manager
Galway - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)
12 month daily rate contract
*Valid Driving License required
Responsibilities:
1. Management of all the testing and validation activities through the system development life cycle (SDLC), covering quality assurance of Contractor system testing, functional integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
2. Overseeing and managing the design, maintenance, and execution of robust test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, and test data in line with Test Strategies.
3. Ensuring performance, stress, and volume testing of non-functional requirements is conducted, and findings progressed.
4. Ensuring maintenance and completeness of requirements traceability matrix throughout the test phase.
5. Driving communication between the testing, business analysis, architecture, and development/production support teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage.
6. Resource planning and developing release work plans and schedules for validation and execution of test cases in line with the overall agreed Contractor program of work.
7. Reviewing and inputting as required into overall project timelines, project and cost estimation, budget development, and cost control for the applications/projects in scope from a testing perspective.
8. Inputting into project approval and sign-off for all test activity and documentation.
9. Engagement and coordination with third-party vendors in relation to aspects of software testing and validation.
10. Reviewing Contractor or other third-party test documentation.
11. Management of testing risks and issues.
12. Reviewing and developing system enhancement requirements and system changes.
13. Day-to-day management of defects raised with Contractor from initial logging right through to defect resolution in production.
Required Experience:
1. Practical experience of overseeing and managing the design, maintenance, and execution of robust test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, and test data, on time and to agreed standards, and recording and analyzing test results, and reports on any unexpected or unsatisfactory outcomes. Provide support to production environment release validation and production bug troubleshooting.
2. Practical experience of resource planning and development of release work plans and schedules for validation and execution of test cases; providing reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project.
3. Practical experience of driving communication between the test, business analysis, architecture, development/production support teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage and practical experience of providing support to business users on testing activities in UAT.
4. Practical experience of working with restful APIs, performing Soap Webservice Functional testing on Postman and/or SoapUI as well as practical experience of manual functional and non-functional testing; experience of working with test management systems (e.g., Azure DevOps, Bugzilla, Jira, or equivalent).
Skills:
Restful APIs, Postman, Azure DevOps
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